Combined mop holder and wringer.



H. O. JOHNSON & J. H. NICHOLSON. COMBINED MOP HOLDER AND WRINGER.APPLICATION FILED rEB.24,1913

1,089,47 5. Patented Mar. 10, 1914.

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COMBINED M]? HOLDER AN D WRING-ER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 10, 1914.

Application filed February 24, 1913. Serial No. 750.166.

To all whom it may concern:

Hey it known that we, HANS O. JonNsoN and JAMES H. Niononson, citizensof the United States, residing at Sacramento, in the county ofSacramento, State of California, have invented certain new and use fulImprovements in Combined Mop Holders and lWringers; and we do declarethe following to be a clear, full, and exact description of the same,such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains tomake and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings,and to the characters of reference marked thereon, which form a. part ofthis application. 7

This invention relates to improvements in mop holders, the object of theinvention being to produce a combination with the mop holder and as apart of the same a wringer adapted to thoroughly and elfectively wringthe water from the mop whenever desired without the necessity ofhandling an independent element, bucket or other similar devices nowcommonly used and also doing away with the necessity of handling the wetmop manually in any degree.

A further object of the invention is to produce a simple and inexpensivedevice and yet one which will be exceedingly efi ective for the purposesfor which it is designed.

These objects, we accomplish by means of such structure and relativearrangement of the parts as will fully appear by a perusal of thefollowing specification and claims.

On the drawings similar characters of reference indicate correspondingparts in the several views. a

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the complete mop holder and mop. Fig. 2is a top plan view of the mop holder and wringing mechanism. lFig. 3 isa sectional view taken on a line X-X of Fig. 2. Fig". 1 is a detachedview of the mop holder of the device.

Referring now more particularly to the characters of reference on thedrawings, the numeral 1 designates the handle of the mop holder which istubular at its lower end for the purpose as will appear. At the lowerend of said member 1 is secured a flat memher or presser plate 2provided with a plurality of orifices 5, said flat member being providedwith side flanges 3 provided with further upwardly projecting flanges 4.The numeral 6 designates another flat member 101' presser platepivotally mounted on the inner ends of the members 3 as at 6, whichmember 6 is provided with a plurality of holes 7 and with side flanges 8movable within the flanges 3, which flanges 8 are provided with Links 10are pivotally connected to the flanges 4; as at 11 and are provided withcurved inner surfaces 12. The upper ends of said links are upwardlyconnected as at 13 to links 14, which links 14- inner surfaces 15 andare flexibly connected as at 16 to links 17, which links 17 are in turnflexibly connected as at 18 to the flanges 9. The links 17 are providedwith upwardly projecting lugs 95 have curved T cams 19 adapted to bearagainst the curved surfaces 12 and 15. Pull wires 20 are connected withlinks 17 and thence with a rod 21 flexibly connected on a lug 22 on alever 23 fulcrumed at 24 on the handle member 1. is provided with a pin25 adapt- 7 Said lug 22 ed to engage a catch 26 pivotally mounted as at27 on the member 1 for the purpose of holding the lever 23 and connectedparts in any fixed position as will appear.

Movable longitudinally a bar 28 having a projecting handle meniber 29movable through a slot 30 in said member 1. On the lower end of saidmember 28 is a cross head 31. Secured on one side of the cross head 31is a spring wire 32 extending across the end of the member 31 and up onthe other side and provided with a curved portion 33 adapted to beengaged by a cam 3d having an operating handle 35.

In practice, a band spring 36 is secured to the member 1 and extends inthe path of the handle member 29 so as to limit the movement of the bar28 to hold the cross head 31 always interposed between the members 2 and6. The mop proper is inserted between the wire 32 and thecross head 31and is locked in position therein by the cam 34 engaging the free end 33of said wire 32. For the purpose of inserting or removing the mop, thespring 36 may be moved away from the path of the handle member 29 andthe bar 28 then projected farther in order to bring the cross head 31between the ends of the members 2 and 6 where the mop will be readilyinserted or removed.

In practice, when the mop is to be wrung the handle member 29 isoperated to re tract the member 28, member 31 and the mop 36 back sothat the mop 36 is completely retained between the members 2 and in themember 1 is l lldll 6. The lever 23 is then pressed downwardly whichpulls on the rod'21 the pull wires 20 and the link 17 which actlon pullssaid link backwardly and causes the cam 19 to enga e the curved surfaces12 and 15 of the 11 s an exceedingly strong leverage to force the ugs 9and incidentally the members 6 downwardly against the mop 36 squeezingit closely between the members 2 and 6 which will wring the watertherefrom and cause it to pass out through the orifices 5 and 7. Thisposition is maintained then by means of the in 25 engaging the catch 26until said ratc et bar is disengaged from said pin and then a spring 37pulls all the parts tonormal position again as shown in Fig. 3 and thenby the operation of the handle 29 the mop 36 will be projected outthrough the ends of the members 2 and 6 as shown in Fig. 1.

From the foregoing description it will be readily seen that We haveproduced such a device as substantially fulfils the objects of theinvention as set forth herein.

While this specification sets forth in detail the present and preferredconstruction of the device, still in practice, such deviations from suchdetail may be resorted to as do not form a departure from the spirit ofthe invention.

Having thus described our invention what we claim as new and useful anddesire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. A device of the character described comprising a tubular handlemember, a pair '10 and 14, thus givin of presser plates hinged togetheron the lower end of said handle member a rod movable through saidtubular member and having a-handle member projecting through the side ofsaid tubular member, said rod projecting between said presser plates,means on the end of said rod for receiving a mop and means for movingsaid presser plates together, as described.

2. A device of the character described comprising a handle member, a airof presser plates disposed on said hand e member and pivoted together atone end an linked to ether at the other end, the links on one p-atehaving cam surfaces adapted to engage the links connected to the otherplate to force the lates together, and pull wires connected wit said camlinks.

3. A device of the character described comprising a tubular memberprovided with spaced presser plates at one end, means for moving saidpresser plates, a rod movable in said tubular member and projectinbetween said presser plates, means on sai rod for receivin a mop, saidtubular member being provi ed with a slot, a handle member on said rodprojectin through said slot and a band spring norma ly disposed over aportion:- of said slot and projecting in the path of said handle member,as described.

In testimony whereof we afiix our signatures in presence of twowitnesses.

HANS OSCAR JOHNSON. JAMES H. NICHOLSON.

Witnesses:

JOSHUA B. WEBs'rnn, CLARENCE M. SMITH.

